we wade through blood / for our sleeping girls

[fahye]

I thought I'd take advantage of the when you see this, post a poem in your journal meme, which has been floating half-heartedly around my flist recently, to talk about Carol Ann Duffy, who is the UK's current (and first female, and first openly gay) Poet Laureate. I first heard about her tangentally in a post of foreverdirt's, and looked her up on Wikipedia,

Comments

[bookshop]

oh, oh, that is fantastic. I dearly want to read the rest of her poems now, thank you for this rec!

[fahye]

I will be very interested to hear what you think of the other poems in that collection! I'm currently in the middle of another one called feminine gospels which is also completely about women.

[schiarire]

I like this poem & this meme. I will try to post poetry later! I would even try to do it every day (or some other interval) for a while if you'd do it with me :) More poetry = plusgood for LJ.

[fahye]

I would be up for that! It would force me to actually learn about some poets that are not Auden and Dylan Thomas.